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Build better pilot rings for Updates with MEM Intune

A few weeks back I wrote about creating better pilot rings within a MEMCM environment. Because of the feedback and some projects I transferred the solution for Intune only environments. 

Key Features

Prerequisites

  • App Registration in Azure AD with the following Scopes and a certificate as secret:
  • Azure AD group for Pilot (I recommend for testing purposes to create a new group without any deployments)

Configuration

  1. First you need to download the solution from GitHub which consist of one files(Invoke-PilotDeviceSelection.ps1).
  2. Customizing the PowerShell Script. Modify the variables in the “Manual Variable Definition” section of the script. Each variable has a short explanation within the script:
				
					## Manual Variable Definition
########################################################

# MSGraph Access
##############

$clientId = "9b4e0380-6265-4e20-8f74-d741b0b54277"
$tenantId = "b4a07665-d9a0-4e3f-b25b-401e5c95634e"
$authcert = Get-Item Cert:\CurrentUser\My\B6B38C1E0D61B595A8E723F9F61212B9ECC045AF



# Groups
##############

# Define a group which contains all devices which should be
# in focus for the pilot. Only apps installed on these devices and 
# hardware models of these devices will be used for the calculation.
$AADGroupId_InScope = "ee2fbcf2-37e1-4bb6-9892-72f94b3f5cae"

# Define the group where the pilot devices should be added. During testing you can just specify 
# a new empty group.
$AADGroupId_Pilot = "f6bf1821-9ed5-4012-a7fd-a331ac404fb9"

# Optionally you can define a group which contains devises which
# are in earlier stages already targeted. These devices (the apps
# installed and hardware models) will be marked as already tested. 
$AADGroupId_Insider = "7eed8520-dbbb-4c0b-9d0c-7591ffea11ea"



# Model Selection
##############

# How many devices per model should be in Pilot ring?
$DevicesPerModel = 1

# How man devices of a model need to be in use to be in focus for the pilot?
$MinDeviceModelCount = 1


# App Selection
##############

# How many devices per app should be in Pilot ring?
$DevicesPerApp = 1

# How man installations of a app are need to be in focus for the pilot?
$MinInstallCount = 1

# Do you want to exclude specific apps? Specify the exact name as the app is written in the detectedApps.
$ExcludedApps = @("microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps")


				
			

When all variables are adjusted you can execute the script and the pilot group will be provisioned. 

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